Senate Election Outlook With Nine Months to Go
Feb 14, 2012

While most of the public and media attention has been focused on the vigorous Republican Party brawl to nominate a candidate to oppose President Barack Obama, things are hopping along in the contest to see which party will control the Senate in 2013.

While Republicans have a numerical advantage – they only have 10 seats to defend while Democrats have 23 – control of the Senate is more like a jump ball because there are so many very tight Senate contests.

Take Virginia:  Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican George Allen have been tied in every credible poll for months and are likely to remain tied into November.

Or Montana:  Democratic Senator Jon Tester and Republican Congressman Denny Rehberg are similarly tied and are likely to remain so.

Or take two seats that Democrats hope to snatch away from Republicans and are in similar close competition.  In Massachusetts, Democrat Elizabeth Warren started out as the underdog to Senator Scott Brown but has pulled into an even race.  In Nevada, Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley is neck-and-neck with Republican Senator Dean Heller.

Other states have very tight races as well, including Missouri and Wisconsin.

And many other contests could swing one way or another in the next nine months.

Rep. Tammy Baldwin on exiting from Afghanistan
Oct 11, 2011

It's Time to End America's Longest War
OpEd by Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
Huffington Post  - Oct. 7, 2011

Please consider helping elect Tammy Baldwin to the US Senate.

Ten years ago this week, we invaded Afghanistan with a clear mission. Our nation had been attacked and Afghanistan served as a safe haven for those responsible, sheltering al Qaeda training camps within its borders. Days after the attacks on our homeland, I voted to authorize the use of military force against the perpetrators and those who had aided and abetted them. I stand by that vote.

But today, ten years after the war began, the number of al Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan is estimated at less than 100. Our objective is no longer clear, and neither is the rationale for our continued presence. After a decade of fighting, more than 2,700 coalition lives lost, and nearly half a trillion dollars spent (the equivalent of five years' worth of the federal budget for infrastructure), this has become a war without a mission -- and, thus, a war we cannot afford to continue.